Mahjong Font: Tile Artwork, Notation and LaTeX Diagrams

Daniel Schmitz’s mahjong-tex repository documents a LaTeX package using MPSZ notation, primarily for Riichi hands. It supports red fives, concealed, blank, rotated and stacked rotated tiles, plus spacing and tile-size controls. Its README notes that flower tiles are missing and credits FluffyStuff’s tile artwork. CTAN’s package record provides the distribution and documentation links. This is a specialized typesetting resource, not a claim that installing an OTF will make arbitrary typed words become Mahjong hands.

Write the intended tile sequence in the documented notation and keep a separate plain-language explanation of what the diagram should show. Check tile count and order against that explanation before adjusting the layout. A rotated tile conveys different information from an upright tile, so do not rotate tiles simply to make the diagram fit. When illustrating a rule, use only the detail needed for that example rather than adding decorative tiles around the hand.

Choose one tile size and spacing policy for comparable examples, then reserve extra width where a called group or annotation needs it. Proof the caption separately from the tile artwork so that a font change cannot silently alter the diagram’s meaning. Inter and Source Sans 3 are caption comparisons, not tile fonts. The homepage font generator offers Unicode text styles for separate short wording; it does not parse Mahjong notation or produce the diagrams described here.